Teams pulling into Nikolai described a snowless section worse than any year in recent memory. “It was not fun,” rookie Hanna Lyrek said. Kristy Berington worried her sled wouldn't make it. And Hugh Neff said he'd 'taken a few Tylenols.'
NIKOLAI — Iditarod musher Hugh Neff was exhausted as he rested outside a wall tent at the checkpoint here Tuesday afternoon, about a quarter of the way into the 1,000-mile competition.icy and rocky trail into the village of Nikolai.A musher going through the Farewell burn area, where a forest fire about a decade ago left charred spruce trees along the trail.
“All that clay comes up in the air — dirt or whatever it is,” he said. “And it goes in your eyes, in your nostrils. It’s like you’re in a coal mine or something.”“The wind was probably 50 miles per hour and it just flipped us over like a rag doll,” he said. He came to a halt only after yelling stop to Jessie Holmes, whose team he was following. That forced his dogs to stop as well.
“That was a pretty rock-and-roll section for sure,” said Michelle Phillips. “It was super bumpy. Super rough.” Nikolai resident Bob Esai watches Iditarod musher Aaron Burmeister fill up on hot water to feed his dog team Tuesday morning. Nikolai resident Oline Petruska said she grew up traveling with dog teams. But kids in her village don’t have that experience now, so it’s nice for them to learn a little about mushing when the race comes through town.
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